Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-01-07
General l1eps.
DOMESTIC.


BY the burning of floating boarding
house on the Tombigbee river in Ala
bama IA score of lives were lost.
The total output of the Colorado gold,
silver and copper mines was S26, 794, 6SS,
an increase of more than two millions
over 1885.
Half a million dollars, it is said,ys
needed to supply the immediate pressing
needs of people in Texas who are depend
ent on charity.
The total arrivals at New York in 1856
from foreign ports were 5971, slight
increase over 1885, but a falling-off from
the previous four years.
The White House reception on New
Years day was remarkably brilliant, and
those held by cabinet members and others
were comparatively so.
DIR. Horatio Potter, ST., retired bishop
of the Episcopal diocese of New York,
died at his home in New York city on
Sunday in his eighty-ffth year
The depression in the ship-building in
terests of Maine has not been so great
for 10 years as during 1886, and next
year does not give promise of better re-
suits.
During the past year $5,00O,000 has
been expended in the erection of public
buildings in western Massachusetts.
northnrn Cnpnontiaut nj Soutbnr,, Lor
mont
Capt. 4. f. b. sparrow of London,
Eng, who went to Colorado last June
and sunk $4,000 in a bogus cattle com
pany. shot himself dead Saturday at Las
Vegas.
Two young ladies were killed and
seven wounded Saturday evening near
Fort Wayne, Ind. while crossing the
railway track in a sleigh. The driver, it
is alleged, saw the approaching train and
was urged to stop, but drove on reck-
lessly.
The board of arbitration, to whom
were referred the differences between the
ing valley, have decided that wages of
miners should be advanced from - to Go
cents per ton. The miners will resume
work Monday. About 5000 men are in
terested in this decision.
John Roach. the ship-builder. who has
been confined to his home for some weeks,
is fatally i'll. says a New York dispatch
His disease is epithelioma, and its develop
ment has been very similar to the case of
Gen. Grant. the location. however, be-
ing the roof of the mouth, instead of the
throat. All efforts to arrest its progress
have failed, and only his powerful con-
stitution has sustained Mr.. Roach so long.
w. II. ClarksOn. a prohibitionist of
Junction City, KY, formerly a hard
drinker. was induced to get drunk on
whiskey Christmas day by Daniel Twad-
die. While in stupor he was loaded
into IA wagon and paraded over town
under the banner. "Sacred to the memory
of prohibition" When the fun was over
ClarksOn was dead from the effects of
the alcohol. Twaddle will probably be
indicted for murder.
This last year has been an unprofita-
BILE as we'll as disastrous one to Glou-
cester (Mass.) fishermen, and scarcely
does year pass but what the fishing in
dustrv is attended with great loss of life,
although brighter prospects are looked
60 ia, hn f,,t, ha To- ho
exceeded the average The figures COM
prises a total loss of 26 vessels of a ton
mage of l75l.26, valued at Sl52.300 and
insured for Sll9,23l. while the number
of lives lost was 1871.
Funeral services over the remains of
General Logan took place in the senate
chamber in Washington Friday. The
President was unable, through illness. to
attend, but otherwise his household was
fully represented. The funeral address
was made by Rev. DR.. Newman. The
procession. with General Sheridan at its
head. went through the rain to Rock
Creek cemetery. where the Grand Army
ceremony for the dead of its order was
performed, and the body temporarily
laid in the Hutchinson tomb
Oscar and Thomas Hopkins, colored,
were killed at Brennan, Tex, Thursday
afternoon, by Daniel Nelson, another
negro. The Hopkins boys and Nelson
were leaders of rival brass-bands. While
Nelson was with his band playing at a
dance in the country Wednesday night
two shots were fired through window.
Although the shots were harmless, Mel
son claimed that the Hopkins boys had
tried to kill him, and so he borrowed a
doube-barreled shotgun and killed the
Hopkins brothers on sight. He was ar
rested.
A west-bound express train on the Bal
timore Il Ohio railroad, half an hour be-